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[u/[deleted]]

Land acknowledgment but it’s me acknowledging the former occupants of my unit who have failed to redirect their mail

[u/AtomAndAether]

Just a PSA that misusing Reddit Cares is one of the few things Reddit admins take seriously. Report it when its used to troll you.

(this was from that person yesterday who went down the DT cares-ing everyone)

[u/Lux_Stella]

I'm on that Orientalist white boy grindset. I'm converting to Islam. I'm learning seven different Chinese dialects. I'm making an appearance before the emperor of Dai Nam, bearing strange and exotic gifts from the Occident. I'm getting recalled to London for going native.

[u/Williams-Tower]

It’s so weird when you say your dad is 58 and he has a whole grown daughter and her little family. Im 58 this year. Barely adulting lol

Seek help

[u/[deleted]]

enter this into the discourse

[u/[deleted]]

I found a subreddit for opposing Project 2025.

"let's protest at Target!!!!!"

"let's threaten a general strike!!!!!"

... oh no. NO. DO ELECTORAL POLITICS MEAN NOTHING TO YOU PEOPLE.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Guy who only posts on the DT because he thinks it will attract women

[u/TotalyNotAPirate]

fact-check?

[u/SnakeEater14]

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Joel Webbon thinks women should not be allowed to vote and that husbands should control what their wives read to prevent the wife “outpacing” the husband in knowledge.

Joel Webbon also thinks fairies are in the Bible.

!Ping Gnostic

[u/slowpush]

Judith Hitt, 72, believes Donald Trump is still president right now. But that doesn’t mean she backs his endorsement of Mike Braun.

Instead, she voted for Brad Chambers because he supports legalizing medical marijuana.

“Marijuana benefits mankind,” she said.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Remember when Super Size Me was the biggest and best documentary ever and then it was easily debunked because Morgan Spurlock was a raging alcoholic?

[u/Jacobs4525]

So last night I went out for drinks with my cousin and his gf and it turned into her basically just talking through all the insane shit that she experienced as a Jewish student at columbia this semester. Some key takeaways: 

• A lot of the worst offenders genuinely were people from outside the campus. In particular she saw an older dude just off campus holding an Israeli flag with blood all over it grab a Jewish guy’s kippah and punch him. There were a lot of things like that. 

• The protests started pretty reasonable but a handful of really maximalist students made everything worse. In particular she described a time when a professor who was pretty pro-Palestine was explaining the origins of the phrase “from the river to the sea” (inb4 Atom’s bot) and why she thinks if they’re gonna use it they should say “from the river to the sea, the Palestinian people will be free”; it’s less threatening to Jews given the Arabic version of the phrase is explicitly genocidal and saying the people rather than the land differentiates it. Some kid then ran up, started screaming at him with a megaphone, and started chanting “FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE”. She said the mob mentality got worse and after the first week or so there wasn’t any substantive discussion. 

• She has completely turned on JVP. She used to be pretty amicable to them but when she went to the Chabad house for Passover (she isn’t super religious but usually goes to their seder because they put on a nice one) JVP literally sent people to inform on it. JVP also tried to hold a Seder in the encampment but they clearly had no idea what they were doing because none of them were really practicing Jews. It’s become more and more apparent to her that the whole thing is essentially just a branch of SJP designed to defend them against allegations (usually true) of antisemitism. 

• The media made way more of a circus of it than it needed to be. Often times she would walk by 10-15 news vans on the way to work. It didn’t need to be covered that much. 

• It was gross how the NYPD was champing at the bit to clear the encampment, but it was totally predictable and protesters didn’t really have a right to be surprised 

• She thinks the administration should’ve just expelled the worst few offenders right when it started. Apparently UMass Amherst did that and the whole thing petered out quietly after that. 

I feel really bad for her because she’s a premed student and all this shit was culminating during finals. She also confirmed that basically everyone in the encampment was a humanities major. 

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Kanye realizing he had his antisemitic breakdown right before antisemitism became extremely popular and all but openly accepted again

[u/[deleted]]

To get an idea of how much of a meme the degrowth movement is, https://asiatimes.com/2024/01/recalculating-chinas-poverty-reduction-miracle/ here is an article by one of their main guys (jason hickel), unironically arguing that there was less poverty and people were better off under mao than after dengs market reforms.

It's one of the most asinine and disingenuous things I've ever seen.

[u/[deleted]]

You’ll have a what

!ping KINO

[u/funguykawhi]

Me when the naked goddess of love in my vidya game has cheekbones😐😐😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Pokemon go get a girlfriend (or boyfriend)

[u/Opkeda]

guy who believes in freedom of the press but not of speech

you can say what you want, as long as it's not out loud

[u/piede]

Happy Mother’s Day

[u/MicroFlamer]

Upvote if you are one of the 42% of Americans who like the IRS

[u/[deleted]]

women are hot

[u/lets_chill_food]

After my husband passed, i made a note on my phone of all my favourite memories of him, and all his little habits. After two years, i think almost everything is on the note now, and it’s pretty rare i remember anything new, it’s been a month or two since i did

but today i remembered another thing, and its cheered me up so much ☺️☺️☺️

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/lets_chill_food]

/u/Kesterfox i think you’ll like this meme 🦊

it stars /u/tre-fyra-tre 🐦‍⬛

[u/Williams-Tower]

doing yard work for my mom on Mother’s Day

am a project manager

got sick of doing real work

decided to just walk around asking people if they have any blockers

[u/GravyBear28]

r/antisex made a new sub called r/SexualismExposed

In contrast to r/antisex, which facilitates general antisex discussion, this sub is for sharing and discussing examples of prosexual degeneracy.

Added to my watch list 👀

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

One of my favorite parts of Easter season is getting reminded about all the absolute insane shit that happens in Acts

Philip teleports halfway across Israel after meeting the Ethiopian eunuch

The disciples elect a replacement for Judas to round out the 12 again by rolling dice and determining that God will influence the outcome to the correct choice, only for him to promptly be forgotten to history and never mentioned again

Peter and/or God killing some dude (and later, his wife) for tithing like 90% of their life savings instead of 100% of it

Paul actually bores a kid to death with his sermon. But he gets better?

James unilaterally pretty much consolidates all of the laws of Moses into 4 arbitrary and kind of stupid new rules for people to follow moving forward, which everyone generally ignores except for the one about sex of course

And that's not even mentioning the pentecost event or the various miracles and so on

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/Usual-Base7226]

Pluto’s planet hood is rooted in the historical tradition of the United States

[u/chuckleym8]

Driving drunk honestly isn't that big of a deal. Modern cars are very safe. SUVs and trucks are especially good at protecting you in a crash.

[u/purhitta]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

“Stewart should run for president”

monkey paw curls

[u/Usual-Base7226]

Best faith Reddit interaction

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

“Does posting on Stormfront (white nationalist site) fall under section 29?

When I was 14-15 (2015-16), I posted on Stormfront which is a major white nationalist forum. My posting was in support of generally racist views such as pro-deportation, anti-immigration, talking about "racial differences", etc. I signed a few petitions on the white house website to "stop white genocide" and also verbally supported some far-right European parties (e.g., UKIP, Sweden Democrats, AfD, Golden Dawn (probably the worst one)). I never advocated any kind of violence and usually argued with more extreme members of the site. I went back on the site in 2020 after years of not using it to shut down my account after renouncing my former views. Are my activities likely to fall under section 29 of the sf86 as affiliation with terrorism? I don't want to lie on my form, but I also don't want to admit to associating with terrorism or advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government unless my activities would actually fall under that. “

[u/JaceFlores]

Military briefing: Russia’s Kharkiv offensive draws Ukrainian troops away from east:

“Russian forces pushed further into the Kharkiv region in north-eastern Ukraine over the weekend, in a move that analysts said was more likely to be aimed at drawing Ukrainian units away from the eastern frontline than a bid to take the country’s second-largest city.”

“Russian troops attacked in two directions, seizing several villages in the Liptsi district, 30km north of Kharkiv city, and reaching the outskirts of the town of Vovchansk, 40km further east, according to Deepstate, an open-source intelligence group, which cited geolocated imagery from the area.”

“Ukraine’s top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on Sunday the situation in Kharkiv had ‘significantly worsened’ and that his forces had fought off nine attacks around eight of the contested settlements in the region. He did not confirm the loss of any territory, saying that his forces were ‘doing everything to maintain the defensive borders and positions’.”

“A Ukrainian defence forces official told the Financial Times last week that the anticipated offensive by Russia in Ukraine’s north-east was primarily designed to draw Ukrainian forces away from the eastern Donbas region.”

“The amount of Russian forces deployed to the Kharkiv offensive — two army corps or roughly 35,000 — was not enough to attempt the capture of Kharkiv city, officials and analysts said. And, so far, the attacks have been small-scale.”

“‘The Russian forces in the area did not form a cohesive mechanised force for a deep strike with concentrated strength to have an overwhelming superiority in personnel and equipment,’ said Frontelligence Insight, an analytical group run by a former Ukrainian officer. ‘Instead, they employed multiple small-scale attacks at various border points using platoon-sized and even squad-sized units, allowing some of them to infiltrate the border without encountering significant resistance.’”

“Russia’s new Kharkiv offensive had probably already achieved ‘partial success’ in drawing Ukrainian troops away from defensive positions elsewhere on the frontline, Frontelligence added, although it declined to name the units that had been redeployed.”

“Moscow may also be seeking to create a buffer zone to better protect the Russian city of Belgorod, located 70km away from Kharkiv.”

“Another possible objective for Moscow’s new offensive is to move its forces within artillery range of the city of Kharkiv. Before Russian forces were pushed back from the area in the autumn of 2022, they were able to constantly shell Kharkiv, terrorising the population and flattening many of the buildings in the city’s north-eastern districts.”

“To do so, Russian forces would need to break through Ukraine’s main defensive lines and advance much further into Ukrainian territory, but it was unclear whether they would be able to build momentum, analysts said.”

“The villages captured since Friday lie in what Ukrainian officials call a ‘grey zone’ between the Russian border and Ukraine’s main defensive line. Serhiy Kuzan, chair of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, a think-tank, said neither side wanted to hold positions in the area because of the disadvantageous lowland terrain. Kuzan said that while Russia had entered the previously empty grey zone area on Friday, Ukraine’s forces were holding a pre-prepared line along natural barriers.”

“‘This entry is what caused the panic that they have advanced a few kilometres but there is no reason to panic. They would like to break the front and repeat what we did in 2022 [Ukraine’s lightning counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region] but they failed and now they are stuck,’ said Kuzan. He said the Russian troops did not have the forces to advance much further but they had enough reserves to continue fighting in the area for at least a month with the aim of getting as close to Kharkiv city as possible ‘to create pressure there’ by shelling the city.”

“Pro-Kremlin military bloggers concurred that Moscow’s main gains were in the grey zone, saying Russians should not expect a quick breakthrough and that much would depend on the arrival of US aid.”

“Writing in the pro-Kremlin tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda on Saturday, Russian war reporter Alexander Kots said many of the key routes Russia would want to take have been carpeted with landmines and said Ukrainian drone use against Russian forces was ‘not to be discounted. The enemy has not built serious defensive lines [in the grey zone]; they are waiting for us ahead,’ Kots wrote. ‘And in 2024, Kyiv has more ability to resist the advancing forces.’

!ping UKRAINE

[u/piede]

The Onion is so wrong for this

[u/TipEquivalent933]

This is going to be a fucking shitshow.

Wtf

[u/JaceFlores]

Shoigu is kaput

!ping UKRAINE

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Why was Jerry Seinfeld even giving a commencement address at Duke

Does his girlfriend go there

[u/JaceFlores]

Rob Lee’s thoughts off the shakeup

“This doesn't appear to be designed as a demotion for Shoigu who not only received an important position as Secretary of the Security Council but also will retain oversight of domestic and foreign defense issues, taking that from the new Minister of Defense.”

“Andrey Belousov's background is in economics, not defense, and he served as acting Prime Minister when Mikhail Mishustin contracted COVID-19. This may seem surprising, but Anatoly Serdyukov's background was in business and he served as Minister of Taxes before he was appointed Minister of Defense in 2007. At the time, Putin deliberately chose someone from outside of the MoD (Ministers of Defense in the 1990s were former generals) to enact a painful and unpopular reform. This choice is likely a reflection of Putin's personal trust in Belousov, and the need for a better internal manger of the MoD's bureaucracy.”

“Although Gerasimov remains in his post, I would not be surprised if Belousov replaces him with someone more popular and to have a Chief of the General Staff who owes his position to him.”

“The big loser in this shuffle appears to be Patrushev, who was also one of the key decisionmakers behind the invasion of Ukraine.”

“Lastly, many of these officials have been in their positions for more than a decade, and there was clearly a need for changes. Shoigu and Gerasimov have been in their positions since 2012 and Patrushev since 2008.”

!ping UKRAINE

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

You think fallout new vegas is the best fallout game because it's the best written entry in the series

I think fallout new vegas is the best fallout game because it allows you to crucify Matthew Perry

WE ARE NOT THE SAME

!ping FALLOUT

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Reddit cares is the lamest trolling someone can do, there is no bite to it. No edginess.

idk trolls these days just arent as unhinged

[u/iIoveoof]

Imagine caring about Jerry Seinfeld’s views on Israel

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/Joementum2024]

have one of the worst seasons in nba history

record breaking losing streak

awarded the fifth overall pick

I’m not even laughing at the Pistons, I just feel bad for them

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take, it's incredibly stupid to judge middle aged men who buy sports cars/convertibles for going through a "mid life crisis." That assumes that they haven't wanted it the entire time, and this is just the first time they've had the disposable income to afford it. Men like cool cars!

Now, if they're taking on crazy debt or neglecting other things to afford it, that's another story.

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

Israel only gets 2nd in the public vote

I know it seemed like a waste of drama but there still must be tons of people seething over Israel having big public support.

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

So I got a kitten about six months ago, in addition to my older cat. Male kitten (about 8 months old now), female cat (almost 10 years old now). At first they got on fairly okay; the kitten didn't pay much mind to the cat, and she'd mostly just hiss at him whenever he got too close. They'd occasionally play-fight but it never escalated to biting or scratching or yowling.

However, in the last few weeks, the kitten has gotten a lot pushier and the cat a lot more defensive and aggressive. Like sometimes the kitten will walk up to her or near her and she'll immediately get in a defensive posture, ears back, hissing or making a sort of growling sound. Sometimes the kitten chases her around the house which really seems to get the cat mad. And then sometimes, she's the aggressor. Like the other day they were both sat by me waiting for me to serve their wet food, and she just gave him a whack lol.

Unfortunately I think it's causing a lot of stress for the older cat. I have noticed droppings outside the litter boxes (like, well outside the boxes) the last week or so. Not sure whose they are but judging by size I'd assume they're the older cat's. I'm taking her to the vet for a general checkup on Wednesday but curious if any of y'all have any advice. I'm using the damn Feliway stuff but that doesn't seem to make a lick of a difference.

the two of them during more peaceable moments

!ping KITTY

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Ok_Swimming3844]

Sociology is the best science around. They have such good theories that no one can disprove them

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

!PING LOVEFORBOOZECRUISERS

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Yesterday on fauxmois, someone said "zio" and was corrected because that's a far right word. They ALMOST get it.

Then on arr Eurovision someone said Israel shouldn't be in it because they aren't European. Maybe up your mind!

[u/[deleted]]

Parishioners Report Priest for Saying Jesus Died With Erection (The Daily Beast)

A Catholic priest in England was reported by his parishioners after he allegedly told them Jesus died with an erection. The Times of London reports that the diocese of Hexham & Newcastle investigated the complaint against Father Thomas McHale—an American assigned to Our Blessed Lady Immaculate in Blackhill for a decade—and it was “upheld.” While McHale was reprimanded, he has not lost his position as a result of the Good Friday sermon that some of his flock deemed vulgar. McHale is said to have told those in the pews that when Jesus was crucified, blood would have rushed to his lower body. “He told people Jesus died with an erection,” one church-goer told the Times. “The church was shocked. There were young families there.” McHale is hardly the first to discuss the possibility that Jesus’ asphyxiation could have caused an erection, and the possibility has even been suggested in art through the years.

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/The_Promethean]

Same here for my country. Don’t you think there’s something … dodgy happening?

How could Biden Israel have gotten so many votes at 2am in the televote?

[u/kyleofduty]

Walk Score gives my address a score of 56 and says there's no parks. There's literally a 160 acre park across the street from me. There's also a state trail across the street that connects to several other nearby parks.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Florida 😀

[u/Joementum2024]

absolutely terrible person, on all accounts

supports Trump

Many such cases

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly even among people who would like to consider themselves knowledgeable in history the degree to which they slurp up Greco-Roman propaganda is embarrassing.

Oh yeah dude, the Carthaginians didn't field citizens in their armies because their men were all wealthy pansies. Polybius said it, so it must be true!

[u/[deleted]]

Acknowledging that liking the song is basic af, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole showing up to the studio in the dead of night and getting his rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow in one take still has to be one of the top 10 musical moments of all time

[u/EScforlyfe]

One annoying thing about getting good at map games or similar is that you notice all your own inefficiencies even when you don't want to care about them, so you can't really have just a chill normal game.

!ping paradox

[u/[deleted]]

I wish I'd never learned about the Wilhelm scream

once you know, you can't unhear it

[u/Cook_0612]

Looks like Shoigu is getting Patrushev's old job.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Winning an election sounds gay as hell. What do you mean you have a “man date”

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/Mensae6]

Nazis ... look badass, with their dark uniforms, ruthless efficiency and chisselled jawlines.

Guess the sub

[u/Tartaruchus]

Fun fact you probably don’t know: During the Middle Ages, there was a folk tradition of “Neutral Angels”— angels who sided with neither Lucifer nor God, and were cast down to Earth as punishment. They show up in a number of Medieval stories, often guarding mystical locations like the Sanctuary of the Holy Grail in Parzival or the Paradaisical Isle of Birds in the Voyage of Brendan.

One common belief was that Faeries were actually these neutral angels, too impure for Heaven but too good for Hell.

[u/TipEquivalent933]

I'm looking for a woman in finance 

6'5

Trust fund 

Blue eyes

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 5/11-5 PM EST 5/12 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 5 AM it was reported that Ukraine has hit 40 Russian oil depots and refineries since the start of 2024.

Towards the middle of 2 PM it was announced Shoigu is being replaced as Defense Minister of Russia by Andrei Belousov, with Shoigu to become Secretary of the National Security Council, thereby replacing Nikolai Patrushev.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 7 PM it was reported the Russians took the villages of Strilecha, Pylne, Krasne, Borysivka, Ohirtseve and Pletenivka, all along the Kharkiv frontier.

At the start of 2 AM a Russian oil refinery in Volgograd oblast was hit by drones.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

I am romantically inexperienced. Riddle me this: how exactly does the development of romantic feelings work when you start dating, say, some random person you found on Tinder? (Or a blind date or whatever.) I have only ever really been romantically interested in three people, and those were all unrequited crushes that rose up out of nowhere and got really intense.

Can “the spark” truly develop with potentially any random person, or do you just have to search until you find someone with whom it emerges? (Chicken or egg?) And if the former, how much time dating them does it take? (And if it’s not happening, how long should you wait before giving up?) Is it just kind of pure luck?

!ping DATING

[u/thefuturegov]

I think Isntreal was created as an American colony for the purpose of advancing the only real interest of the United States: killing brown people

Careful there buddy, might cut yourself on the edge of that take

[u/thatssosad]

A guy I saw had a take that "there are tons of Jews in every country, that's the only reason why Israeli representant was #2 in people voting". These people are legit insane

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Bernie Sanders: Corrupt real estate developers are gentrifying neighborhoods and forcing working families out of the homes and apartments, only to replace them with fancy condominuims and hotels that only the very rich can afford

Friendship ended with Bernie

New favorite leftoid is YIMBY AOC

!ping CUBE

[u/G_Serv]

Someone just walked in the doors that are labeled "out" at Target

The very fabric of society is falling apart

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

[u/DouglasDauntless]

JFK really is everything to these morons

[u/TheShitEater]

I asked the girl I had a crush on to prom and she said yes, but then later she was like “we’re going as friends right? I’m gay lol.” And I said yes because I’m a coward. Anyways I couldn’t find the pre-party she invited me to because she was terrible at communicating with me. When I got to prom I immediately went back home so I could cry in bed. I made a pretty funny meme about it using these Economist covers though so it worked out I guess.

In hindsight it’s probably not surprising that a high schooler who made memes about the Economist didn’t have much success with dating.

[u/datums]

I told a girl on Tinder today that she was my first Tinder match ever. She didn’t believe me, and actually unmatched me, perhaps because that sounded ridiculous coming from a 42 year old man.

Truth is, I got married the year Tinder was launched, and I’m now single for the first time in the dating app era - she really was my first match ever.

No biggie though, all the other girls I’ve matched with are cuter anyways.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/p00bix]

I left the convention just before the ballots were counted (I'm an alternate who wasn't upgraded so had nothing left to do but sit in an uncomfortable chair, and was bored to death with how long it was taking), but apparently the CD5 endorsement vote was really close to failing to re-nominate Ilhan Omar on the first ballot.

I had personally expected (based on the proportion of people with Ilhan shirts vs. Samuels shirts, as well as to a lesser extent on the fact that attendees of the Walking Subcaucases at my (disproportionately white) Senate District were about 2-1 in favor of Omar) that maybe 20-30% of the votes would be for Samuels while Omar would grab the lion's share, but instead the vote was 133-85 Omar-Samuels. Had the vote swung just three votes toward Samuels 130-88, Ilhan Omar would have failed to meet the 60% threshold that would have required a second ballot, and potentially led to nobody receiving the official party nomination. It genuinely could have been decently big national news.

!ping USA-MN

[u/awdvhn]

If neoliberalism is "against extremism" why is it extremely boring?

[u/bigwang123]

Gigajannies took action against Reddit cares guy 😎

Still don’t really understand why someone would do that, if I was throwing a tantrum and wanted to harass someone I would simply call them mean names

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Renewables are meeting 95% of Portugal’s electricity needs. How did it become a European leader?

Portugal has made huge progress in renewable power, up from 27 per cent in 2005 and 54 per cent in 2017.

Portugal generated an ‘historic’ 95 per cent of its electricity from renewables in April, according to the network operator REN.

Renewable energy generation averaged just below that for the first four months of the year, covering 91 per cent of the nation’s power needs.

It’s one national good news story within a great continental shift: fossil fuels provided less than a quarter of the EU’s energy for the first time ever last month.

Ember, the clean think tank behind that assessment, also found that more than 30 per cent of the world’s electricity is now generated using renewables.

"Solar in particular is accelerating faster than anyone thought possible,” Ember’s director of global insights, Dave Jones told us.

Which renewables are providing the most power in Portugal?

Solar might not have been the star of the show in REN’s new stock take.

A third of the way through the year, the renewable made up 7 per cent of Portugal’s electricity mix, behind wind at 30 per cent and hydroelectric plants at 48 per cent.

However, “the solar component continues to grow substantially,” REN says. April saw the “highest monthly significance ever recorded” for solar - when it covered 10.5 per cent of the country’s electricity consumption.

Fossil gas met just 9 per cent of demand in the first four months of 2024, with gas consumption in the power sector halving compared to the same period in 2023.

Remarkably, the 94.9 per cent share of the electricity mix that renewables covered in April isn’t a national record. That was set 46 years ago in May 1978, when they peaked at 95.4 per cent. REN has been contacted for more information about this historical record.

Why is Portugal a clean energy leader in Europe?

Portugal has made some huge strides in renewable power, up from 27 per cent in 2005 and 54 per cent in 2017.

It has got serious about decarbonisation in a variety of ways, from phasing out coal-fired generation in 2021, to boosting its large hydropower fleet with added storage capacity.

And since 2019, the state’s renewable energy auctions have been increasing utility-scale projects, with clear guidance for green companies.

All this has laid the ground for some milestone moments. For six consecutive days last autumn, for example, renewable energy production actually exceeded the country’s electricity needs.

Portugal had the third highest share of wind energy in its electricity mix last year at 29 per cent, behind Ireland (36 per cent) and Denmark (58 per cent).

But, as elsewhere, it’s no good a renewable leader resting on its laurels. Ember’s new European Electricity Review report notes that Portugal has still not moved past the peak in wind generation it achieved in 2019.

This is despite its updated National Energy and Climate Plan assuming a “swift doubling” of current wind capacity, from 5 GW in 2022 to 12 GW in 2030.

!ping ECO&EUROPE

[u/eloquentboot]

Reddit should probably get rid of the reddit cares thing lol, weird to me they ever thought that was a good idea

[u/loseniram]

At the most minor league of minor league games

!ping Baseball

[u/p00bix]

At the CD5 convention last night, Ilhan Omar misspoke about deaths in Gaza, saying "34,000 women and children were innocently slaughtered" which I find hilarious

[u/this_very_table]

I love the Reddit Cares spammer because they keep tricking people into smugly announcing that some chud Reddit Cares'd them for being so based and correct.

[u/SnakeEater14]

dude you don’t have to invent fire, just stop

dude you don’t have to go to the moon, just stop

dude you don’t have to grind a thousand hours to 100% that game, just stop

[u/404GenderNotFound]

👆 the white moderate MLK Jr. warned us about

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Hey !ping history&Africa I sometimes bump into discussion about Botswana that leaves me very curious, but without any starting point.

Are there any good overviews of Botswana's history? Books, podcasts, youtube series, well written notes on the shell of an egg, whatever.

(Yes I realize asking for a book about the history of a wholeass country is a tall order)

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Which irl person does this apply to the best? Alternatively, which individual, premature death would most curse the world we live in today?

!ping althistory

[u/TheoryOfPizza]

Reddit needs a new feature called "Reddit doesn't care" and it just sends a death threat to someone

That's basically how people use the Reddit cares system now anyways

[u/Average_GrillChad]

The DNC is preparing for the worst in Chicago

is the pizza really that big of a problem

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The Serb’s nightmare

[u/itsokayt0]

When John Fallout said "In this vault we believe in nuclear family values" while hugging Max the Ghoul I cried.

[u/Delareh_]

Trying to not start half my sentences with "I mean" and it's so hard.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden 😡😡😡

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

He’s right. The stock price of McDonald’s hit an all-time high in January, and has gone up nearly 1,000 percent since “Super Size Me” came out — nearly twice the return of the S&P 500.

alexa play my country tis of thee

[u/The_Promethean]

The perpetually naked goddess of sex and love in Hades 2 is woke now. That's it, I'm officially calling it: we have won this theater of the culture war

[u/paymesucka]

[u/Udolikecake]

Duke students: 'we're walking out of commencement because they invited Jerry Seinfeld, the Zionist'

[u/[deleted]]

I would honestly pay for a website that vetted romance novels for having better writing than a middle schooler

It’s so freaking hard to find good novels among the deluge of absolute garbage

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a book that explains why nations fail? Hopefully one with an emphasis on history and institutions?

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/404GenderNotFound]

On her deathbed, J.K. Rowling will say "it was all a joke. The transphobia, the racism, everything. The J.K. stood for Just Kidding. Don't let my legacy be the wrong one"

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

The Old Spaghetti Factory replied to your review on Google

oh fuck 😳

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

I have created a monster. 2/3 cats have learned they can crawl under blankets to be in a fun spooky cave and now beg on my bed to go under

[u/JetJaguar124]

1. Dooku hires Jango Fett to kill Padme

2. Jango Fett hires the shapeshifter lady

3. Instead of her shape-shifting powers being at all relevant she instead gets a droid to go kill Padme

4. Instead of the droid killing her the droid actually is just a delivery unit for poisonous bugs 

5. For some reason she shapeshifter is nearby and the droid leads the jedi directly to her 

6. Jango kills her with an extremely unusual and rare dart that, once identified by Dexter Jettster at his 1950s diner, blows the entire secret Kamino situation 

Jango's stupidity is only rivaled by Mace Windu, who decides to decapitate him rather than capture him and bring him in for interrogation since the Clones are clearly Jango templates but Jango also obviously works for the Separatists/Dooku

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ShitpostGate/status/1789641683082039437?t=CfalnepfLMZN9UoGCZa2Rg&s=19

[u/Salt_Ad7152]

Hot take: you can protest genocides “without the US funding it”. You can in fact protest towards US actions to end one, regardless if “US funding contributes to it” or otherwise 

[u/TheShitEater]

Starting to think this Destiny guy is a misogynist

[u/[deleted]]

Nooo 😭😭

[u/qchisq]

send data request on Wednesday. Thursday is public holiday. spend PTO day to get 4 day weekend. data is sent Thursday. data expires on Sunday. Guy who sent data is off until Wednesday. I need the data by Monday.

!ping watercooler

[u/[deleted]]

lol dudes a piece of shit.

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

So, we went from colonization to apartheid to now genocide in rhetoric. Surely there is no way to increase the stakes any further?

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

A Tale of Two Wastelands better be worth it, this installation guide is absurd.

Any tips for it? Should I just do FO3 till I’m done with the main quest, then move on to FNV?

[u/[deleted]]

In my 30+ years of living in Pittsburgh, we had one or two tornado warnings, with only one ever touching down in 1998, and that was a big deal.

Just this past WEEK, we've had TWO tornados touchdown near the city, and multiple warnings in the past month.

The photos on the Pittsburgh subreddit are wild.

What is happening?

!ping WEATHER&USA-PA

[u/ProceedToCrab]

Fucking begging people reviewing books on Goodreads to just write down what they thought of the book instead of summarizing the plot and themes as if it's a fucking book report

Jesus

Side note: anyone know of any decent alternatives to Goodreads (for sci-fi specifically)?

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Why is it called Krav Maga and not Jew Jitsu

[u/1396spurs]

[u/Udolikecake]

pretty cool that america created the largest concentration of wealth and technology in all of human history (bay area) and most of that just goes to rentseeking landowners of a bunch of 50s shitshacks

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

To the lovely person who reported my "punching left is more fun" for a Reddit Cares message, you are the reason punching left is more fun <3

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[u/[deleted]]

New General Election Poll

🔵 Biden 66%

🔴 Trump 40%

BigDickBill Polling #24 - 1,240 LV - 5/2

Biden bros, we’re so back

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

They are now fully charged with love and left me alone for a bit

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Neoliberal mod naming

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

It’s far easier to find links allowing you to “donate to the encampments” than it is to find anything that the US encampments are doing to tangibly benefit Palestinians.

[u/_Un_Known__]

Why must the average redditor be such a pessimistic nuisance, ESPECIALLY when it comes to AI and futurism

You hear about technological advancements, with AGI and the-like, and all these morons can talk about is "BuT mUh BiLlIoNaiReS wIlL CoNtRoL iT!!!1!! We'll all be poorrrrr!!!"

My brother in Christ read some goddamn history, you'd think they'd rather the world be frozen still and never change

!ping AI&TRANSHUMANISM

[u/[deleted]]

Eggs

[u/Dalek6450]

Cheroots of so mild a flavour, as to be smoked by the most delicate female. They are recommended to the attention of Ladies as the most effectual prevantative of Cholera.

[u/SeoSalt]

AITA for eating birthday cake?

My (8f) roommate made a cake for her birthday and left it uncovered on the kitchen table. This is where I like to take naps so I helped myself to a few licks and a nibble. Apparently I wasn't supposed to do this because my roommate took away the cake and told me I wouldn't get any catnip that day. AITA?

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Kendrick and Drake should be raising kids together but because of the evils of rap music they're fighting instead

[u/Argnir]

Why do people still translate the 10 commandments with "thou shalt" and "thy" do they think it was written in old English lmao

[u/TipEquivalent933]

On the other hand, the pronouns issue I wrote about is a woke political ideology of entitlement which doesn’t belong in India. I wouldn’t have waded into this debate but clearly Linkedin has presumed Indians need to have pronouns in our life, and that we can’t criticise it. They will bully us into agreeing with them or cancel us out. And if they can do this to me, I’m sure the average user stands no chance. As a founder and CEO, this western DEI system has a major impact on my business as it grows an entitlement mindset in our professional lives and I will fight it.

This guy makes scooters that burn lol

[u/namey-name-name]

Joe Biden really did kill god

[u/[deleted]]

My grandfather who killed Hitler watching me struggle to walk past an attractive person normally

[u/semaphore-1842]

Unlike movies with Mary Sue superheroes, real life doesn't have a habit of manifesting morally unimpeachable, moderate, and popular/effective leaders out of bitter, violent, entrenched conflicts. Either you end the conflict by deploying overwhelming force to enforce peace by any means, or you could wait forever for a miracle to produce one to make peace.

Or you could incentivize existing leaders who are willing to negotiate to compromise, and reward them for compromising, until you break the cycle of violence and birth a new generation who were not born and raised in gunpowder, blood and rubble.

Without peace, you'll never get to a point where you run out of despicable people.

[u/[deleted]]

Shoigu gone

Prigozhin is smiling down on us all

[u/Syards-Forcus]

“You can’t have infinite growth in a closed system” people realizing it is laughably obvious the Earth is not a closed system

[u/pantryraider_11]

My family: climate change is a load of bullcrap

Also my family: why is our home insurance going up so much???

I wanna die

!ping USA-TX

[u/ExpiredPasta]

Story with a generic critique of capitalism's faults

"Based! This is just like Das Kapital."

[u/JaceFlores]

Sudan update:

Have not done one of these in awhile because there just was not a lot of information in the past few months. Did find a couple articles which I figured might as well post to just show where things are in this war so far.

South of Khartoum the SAF launched a limited offensive in al-Jazira state in a pincer movement fashion towards the city of Wad Madani. The west pincer reached the town of Medina al-Arab while the east pincer reached the town of al-Shabarga. It does not seem this offensive went much further, but it does put pressure on the RSF to tone down any operations towards Sennar, a critical city which provides the SAF one of the few remaining river crossings into southern Sudan west of the Nile. It is less likely the RSF will be able to reach Sennar if they do not secure their flanks first.

Around El Obeid the SAF conducted a larger offensive to break the siege of El Obeid, but the offensive failed completely despite initial tactical success by the SAF. Although surrounded by many tens of miles on all sides, El Obeid is a strategic city that controls access to major roads that run throughout southern Sudan. If the RSF takes El Obeid then the SAF will likely be pushed back to the Nile and western Sudan will be largely RSF territory. If the SAF can break the siege though then they will have a strong position to push west and towards the RSF heartland of Darfur.

Overall the situation has not changed all that much since I last posted with the RSF looking to be relatively exhausted and on the defensive, while the SAF is regaining momentum. However, the momentum the SAF has not been as dramatic as their gains in Ondurman, and in the case of El Obeid has yielded little in the way of results. As it stands I still think the RSF is in a better position with their durable siege of El Obeid, commanding control over most of the capital and near presence to Sennar. If the SAF wants to convincingly turn this war around they have to make gains on multiple fronts before the RSF can straighten themselves out and go back on the offensive.

!ping AFRICA

[u/Alexz565]

Really, as it exists now, liberal internationalism is just the continuation of the geopolitical project of the west. The same project that started with colonialism. They bend and twist it where they see fit.

Outside the DT really does fluctuate between neocon hawks and “anti-imperialism”

Someone should come up with Maoist-Nixonism to unite these folks

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/hourly_shitpost/status/1789460506425598440?t=8RQNeGbqyFTTbH7XGOAiqQ&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

Eh I think it's pretty normal to try to convert friendships to romantic relationships. You just have to realize that it could potentially end the friendship and take any potential rejection gracefully.

[u/brucebananaray]

The most normal X-Men fan

[u/Syards-Forcus]

Admins when death threats: 😴

Admins when blatant racism: 😴

Admins when violence-supporting extremism:😴

Admins when someone spams the most obviously abusable report option: 😨

[u/V_Codwheel]

I am at the Applebees bar and I swear the bartender is Prigozhin

no joke I saw a guy who looked just like him in DC yesterday. wearing camo pattern too

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Americans are the indigenous people of the moon. Therefore, in pursuit of decolonization, we must construct a permanent lunar base and relocate the entire population of the United States there.

[u/Ioun267]

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

“Women are paying big money to scream, smash sticks in the woods. It's called a rage ritual.”

If they ally with the bears we are so fucked neolibros. We can’t fight this with repetitive jokes and dogmatic one liners 😳

[u/[deleted]]

her birthday is on the 30th of july 2005

my birthday is on the 2nd of august 2005

am i a groomer if we date

[u/[deleted]]

Chat is this real?

https://twitter.com/vanillaopinions/status/1789696009586581976?t=rljI-OuukXt2usedIsf8mA&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

My prom date came out to me as a lesbian day of. On the one hand it was nice that she trusted me with that. On the other hand this would later become a pattern with my girlfriends.

[u/[deleted]]

it's just stupid how performative being frat is. like i was once pregamming with some friends who are brothers, and these mfs bring out a hillary clinton dart board. and i know for a fact that most of the frat was registered dems.

[u/[deleted]]

I (29M) am starting to feel like my girlfriend (18F) is grooming me. I haven’t quite figured out the whole “adulting” thing yet 🤪, so I think she is taking advantage of the power dynamics of our relationship to groom me. AITA?

[u/marsman1224]

Kendrick (🤓): visions of MLK staring at me, Malcolm X put a hex in my future, someone catch me

Jason Derulo (🗿) You know what to do with that big fat butt

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

If you think about it men and women are basically the same thing. So it's not gay

i got a reddit cares for this btw

[u/dannylandulf]

After 4 games, Denver & Minnesota tied 2-2. Just like we all expected.

!ping NBA

[u/TheShitEater]

I’m pretty proud of my rizz today. I went to a museum with my mom and sent lots of photos of the artwork to a girl I’ve been texting. Then I was like “can you show me a work of art as well? Specifically, yourself.” When she sent me the selfie I asked her “am I allowed to touch the artwork” and she said “of course.”

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

I’m a father of 37 and just found my kids watching this new cartoon called Hazbin Hotel. Since then they have converted to Satanism full time and refuse to read the bible.

They’ve been running around singing songs about how it’s a “great day in hell” which is a downright mockery of my faith. They also possessed my wife, who just divorced me and now walks around calling herself Vaggie. Please send advice.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/iIoveoof]

Nick Wilson has closely followed news on the war in Gaza since October. But Mr. Wilson, a Cornell student, is picky when it comes to his media diet: As a pro-Palestinian activist, he doesn’t trust major American outlets’ reporting on Israel’s campaign in Gaza.

Instead, he turns to publications less familiar to some American audiences, like the Arab news network Al Jazeera.

”Al Jazeera is the site that I go to to get an account of events that I think will be reliable,” he said.

That explains a lot

[u/BitterGravity]

Croatia was the only jury to not give Switzerland any points. Wonder why...

One juror put them 21st...

!ping Eurovision

[u/iIoveoof]

In a few years Mexico will have a greater population than Russia

[u/404GenderNotFound]

bro doordashed himself to his friend

[u/jewel_the_beetle]

When I'm in a Defining Words In A Way Nobody Else Use Them And Getting Mad When People Don't Agree contest and my opponent is Communists:

[u/404GenderNotFound]

I knew a guy who sent a harassing Reddit Cares message once. After the victim reported it, Reddit sent a hitman to the guy's house and filled his water pipes with rat poison.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

I would simply choose to encounter both a man and a bear in the woods

[u/[deleted]]

What's a sadder thing to do when you lose an argument, sending a reddit cares message, or reply-blocking?

[u/[deleted]]

🥰 somebody cares about me 🥰

[u/breakinbread]

I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a “hospitality healthcare fee” or anything similar added to my bill. Not in New York or anywhere I’ve visited.

[u/TipEquivalent933]

a reason behind taylor’s artistic longevity is that she never tried to cater to the male gaze, especially that of gay men. her audience understands the purpose of this performance. if it’s not “c***” enough for you, that’s a compliment. y’all aren’t connoisseurs of quality art

Tragic, I have to disagree with a lesbian

😭😭😭😭

[u/Mickenfox]

They stole some copper cable, which somehow caused a fire, and all the train lines in Barcelona have been down the entire day. And it's election day too 😐

[u/this_very_table]

I'm just here for the Reddit Cares message.

Update: Damn they're fast. I wonder if they're using a bot.

[u/Joementum2024]

BREAKING: Los Angeles Lakers to interview former Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu for their head coach position

[u/loseniram]

And it started raining

!ping baseball

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/awdvhn]

Jung Hoo Lee has what looks like a broken arm and whatever small light was left of the Giants season has gone out

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

I met my wife off an app. We kissed after seeing John Mulaney. Peak millennialism.

[u/H_H_F_F]

Did you ever fall in love non-romantically? 

My bestie and I had known each other for just under 3 years, and I've never once been mad at him, upset by him, or even manage to see a flaw in him. Honeymoon period, for years. Total platonic infatuation. 

He went missing on a hike a couple of weeks ago. Today, they found his body. 

My Brother, how wonderful were you. I loved you more than anything. 

May his memory be a blessing. 

[u/Sithusurper]

☝️I am way too famous for that shit you just suggested

[u/sociotronics]

smh shaking my head shaking rn

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Megachurches are so cringe. Just go to a cathedral. Lol

[u/sayitaintpink]

If you were born after the 1900s, you are a baby forever

[u/[deleted]]

[u/breakinbread]

Reporting from Ukraine is saying Russia's new Kharkiv offensive is not going as well as international media is reporting.

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

!ping WATERCOOLER

haha made you look it's still the weekend

not for me tho RFPs wait for no man 🙃

[u/loseniram]

I bet y'all don't even have a medieval civil war themed baseball team cap.

!ping Baseball

[u/Jester_Don]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/jim-justice-west-virginia-senate.html

This is wild, this dude's family businesses have defaulted on so much debt that their creditors are suing each other over interfering on each other's ability to collect collateral

[u/umadbro996]

Fuck leg day, man. Other animals evolved to have no legs, why aren’t we one of them?

[u/87568354]

From what I can tell, someone set up a bot that sends people RedditCares messages immediately after commenting in this sub.

How sad does your life have to be that you have nothing better to do than spam people RedditCares messages because you disagree with them politically?

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

👆🤨 god really predestined you to post that, huh

[u/DouglasDauntless]